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When installing meteor using curl install.meteor.com | sh, it tries to install a launcher script at /usr/local/bin/meteor. However, that requires me to supply an administrator password, which I cannot supply when trying to automate application deployment. in the script at install.meteor.com, there's a line here:

PREFIX="/usr/local"

I'd really like to change the PREFIX variable to "~/local", so that I can install this executable within my home directory and add the directory to my PATH variable. Is there a way to change this variable by sending a runtime variable without downloading the file and editing it myself? I understand that I could just use $HOME/.meteor/tools/latest/launch-meteor to launch my meteor application, but I'd prefer using the launch script instead.

Matthew Fisher
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Short and sweet:

curl install.meteor.com | sed -e 's/PREFIX="\/usr\/local"/PREFIX="\/~\/local"/g' | sh

With props to https://stackoverflow.com/a/10858043/223225. (Caveat: I've only tested this as curl install.meteor.com | sed -e 's/PREFIX="\/usr\/local"/PREFIX="\/~\/local"/g' | cat rather than | sh because I don't want to reinstall Meteor on my system at the moment, but I would be surprised if | sh didn't also work.)

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